Background & Certification

Board Certification

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Professional Background

MEDICAL SCHOOL

During his first year of medical school at the University of Texas, Dr. Coleman began interviewing adolescents with severe facial burns. During these interviews, he realized that these children's scarred faces interfered with their ability to communicate emotions and thoughts to the world around them. He began “scrubbing in” on cases of severe birth defects as well as the burned children he had come to know. Dr. Coleman's early experiences in medicine convinced him of the importance of the face in relating emotions and the conditions of a person's inner self to the outside world. The fascination of making souls visible to the outside world by altering facial structures eventually became the focus of Dr. Coleman's career.

POST-GRADUATE TRAINING

After Dr. Coleman received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Texas, he performed his internship and general surgery residency at the Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. He went on to complete a three-year plastic surgery residency at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. During this time, he studied Aesthetic and Craniofacial Surgery with Fernando Ortiz-Monastario in Mexico City and completed a fellowship in Microsurgery at the R.K. Davies Hospital in San Francisco.

Dr. Coleman studied during a revolutionary period in plastic surgery and medicine. The first year of his plastic surgery residency, liposuction and collagen were introduced to the United States. During his residency, a multitude of new reconstructive plastic surgery procedures were invented by his mentors before his very eyes at the R.K. Davies Hospital, UC San Francisco, Stanford and in Mexico. Just prior to opening his New York City practice in 1985, Dr. Coleman spent six months completing a fellowship in aesthetic surgery at the Institute of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery of the New York University Medical Center.

Awards & Honors

Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine Biomedical Translational Initiative at UPMC • Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Funded to investigate the use of fat grafting in facial and cranial war casualties in 20 soldiers with and without stromal vascular fraction.

Offices Held

International Society for Plastic Surgery Regenerative Surgery (IPRES) Founding Member
Secretary General elected to serve from 2012-2015
President of ISPRES 2013 Congress Rome June 2013
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Staff & Facilities

Surgical Facility

We are fortunate to have within our office building two state-of-the-art operating rooms. These operating rooms are accredited by AAAASF and are fully equipped with everything we need. We also have a select group of board certified anesthesiologists that work with us, providing consistent and excellent care in a safe environment. This allows our patients the convenience of a completely contained facility where they can be seen in consultation, have their procedure, and be seen post-operatively.

Skin Care Products

Obagi Skin Care
The Obagi Nu-Derm System is a physician-prescribed skin care regimen that actually transforms your skin. The system works at the cellular level to correct the function and health of your skin. It can be used on all skin types and will be customized to address your specific needs. Skin with irregular pigmentation, fine lines and wrinkles, and acne will be transformed into skin that is smoother, firmer, more evenly colored and properly hydrated.

Jan Marini Skin Care
The Jan Marini skin care line is a professionally supervised program that addresses aging and photo damaged skin, acne, rosacea, and skin discoloration. The products are gentle, yet highly effective. We offer a variety of products to compliment the other procedures and services available at Tribeca Plastic Surgery.